Little Apples

In the follow-up to his National Translation Award-winning collection The Undiscovered Chekhov, translator and scholar Peter Constantine brings us more little-known work from the legendary authors early days as a magazine writer, pseudonymously turning out pieces for Russias small middle class. These stories are fresh, yet mature, snapshots of the style with which Chekhov would come to be associated, both uproariously tragic and darkly comic, and lit from within by a deep fellow feeling for all of humanity. As his readers have come expect, Constantine has translated this work with a masterly command of both languages subtleties, capturing the shadings and intricacies of Chekhovs writing that flash and recede like sunlight on an orchard, offering Chekhovs tough and amused perspectives on daily phenomena like love, aging, class, and work. With moments that seem to presage the most contemporary writing, Chekhovs Little Apples reveals one of the worlds greatest writers as we have rarely seen him, an author both deeply of his times and far ahead of them.